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Expert Profile: Marsha Cunningham

Expertise: My expertise is in 1st-3rd grade, I specialize in beginning reading and writing, but I teach drawing and painting first to help students gain confidence. I also use jigsaw puzzle strategy to teach concentration as a subject and enlist parents to keep their children away from scary movies,among other things,which cause nightmares, sleep deprivation and low test scores!

Experience in the area
I have taught K-3 for 24 years, given in-service to parents and teachers and presented at reading conferences. To see my children's art work and examples of improved test scores go to www.artsimprovingacademics.org

Education/Credentials
Elementary Clear

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What do you like about this subject? Helping children appreciate their talents and giving them a chance to use and teach their skills to classmates is very rewarding and solves many problems.

What do you still hope to achieve/learn in this field? I want to share my successful methods.

Something interesting about this subject that others may not know: My students are limited only by my concepts of what they can do. Using teacher intuition is the most helpful, and if you pray, pray on.

Something controversial or provocative about this subject Children can learn to read in just a few weeks using letter sounds only, which means no letter names. They don't need to study a single sound for a week; that's ridiculous. They can easily learn four per day and should be printing the letter as they make its sound. This is actually teaching them to write first.

Average Ratings
Prestige Points: 1172
Knowledge	9.94 Best of the best
Clarity of Response	10.0 Best of the best
Timeliness	9.97 Best of the best
Politeness	10.0 Best of the best
Number Of Questions (in Past 24 Hours)		0
Max Questions to be Asked (in 24 Hour period)		5
Total Questions (since joining AllExperts)		135

Recent Reviews from Users

Knowl	Clarity	Time	Politeness	Date
10	10	10	10	05/21/08
10	10	10	10	04/24/08
10	10	10	10	03/17/08
10	10	10	10	03/15/08
10	10	10	10	03/11/08

User Comments

I will try to reintroduce brown rice soon.
(Trisha on 05/21/08)

I received a prompt and informative response to my inquiry and it has been very beneficial to my work. Thank you Marsha.
(Gail on 04/24/08)

Thank you so much for your ideas, I had her sit down and read your answer, and she said she is going to try the things you mentioned! Thanks!
(Eric on 03/17/08)

Thanks! Cynthia
(Cynthia on 03/15/08)

Thanks! Cynthia
(Cynthia on 03/11/08)

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Recent Answers from Marsha Cunningham

2008-06-14 2nd grade Terra nova: Hi Andrea, I have never seen a test score printout without the national percentile on it so I dont know the answer, but you should call the school and ask the principal. If he's not there, call the...

2008-06-04 holding pencil correctly: Dear Michelle, In my experience it absolutely does matter how a child holds a writing instrument, even in pre-sschool as that's where the habit develops. I coaxed my students from the first 5...

2008-05-21 Leukocyte immune deficiency: It sounds like you've done everything that you can possibly do. The brown rice is so therapeutic on so many levels that I always include it in my advice. But if he eats at least 3 other whole grain servings...

2008-05-19 Leukocyte immune deficiency: Please forward this to the giver of the negative review. Trisha, Actually, I know nothing about a 504 plan, nor do I know anything about the condition you mentioned. I said what I said because...

2008-05-14 Parents on Field Trips: Hi Steven., In public schools, if this situation came up we announced that there was only room on the bus for X amount of people. This usually did the trick. If they persisted we told them that they...